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Milan beat Lecce at home in the sixth round of the Italian Serie A.

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After the game, Rossoneri head coach Paulo Fonseca commented on his team’s performance.

“The derby gave confidence to the fans and mainly to the players. Today it was very important to win, after a derby there is always a state of euphoria. The players played a serious game, not everything was perfect, but we had good moments and scoring chances and we did not concede a goal , which is always important.

This team has to learn to play that type of game, our positional play has to be different. During the break we talked about many details to make them better.

You need to wait for the right moment, understand where the free space is. It is important for us to improve this skill, the team must learn to play this way. I said before the match that it will be difficult, the team has to know how to play better in such games without space and in the second half we really played better.

In the first games, we left too much space for the opponents. Today we changed the midfielder who comes to help the defense and the defender who closes the space.

These are things that need to be improved, when we are close to our own zone, we cannot leave so much time for the opposition player to make a pass. We have to be more aggressive when the defender attacks from the outside.

Pulisic? Yes, he does have a more effective involvement in attacks this season. But this is not because he plays inside – at different times he can play more openly. He knows how to play in his role and he scored again because he is always close to the goal,” said the Portuguese specialist.

In the next round, Milan will visit Fiorentina.